Tweet The Charisma Deficit One mystery of the current stand-off in Egypt is the absence of a clear charismatic alternative to Hosni Mubarak. This deficit seems to be the case in much of the Arab Middle-East, where, in spite of long standing authoritarian regimes and longstanding opposition movements, true charismatic leaders have not emerged...
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Tweet This morning’s Wall Street Journal has a long feature on the Indian State of Gujarat, which is essentially a PR piece for Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the State, who has been identified by a series of groups, inquiries and reports to have actively encouraged the killing of hundreds of Muslims in...
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Tweet Reposted from November 7, 2008 at “The Immanent Frame” at the SSCR: Something extraordinary happened on November 4. And even those who did not vote for Barack Obama knew that they had entered a new world after 11.00 PM that night, when he was declared the victor and gave a great, short speech....
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Tweet Welcome to ArjunAppadurai.Org, a site I am dedicating to create a global classroom so to speak by hosting dialog and debate on questions I find particularly stimulating and pertinent to today’s shifting world. I will pose questions that reach back throughout my career in Cultural Anthropology, Globalization, and India, while bringing fresh inquiries...
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